In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Hollywood biographer Scott Eyman discussed his book, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America," and the impact of the silent film star's 1940 film, "The Great ...

A thoroughly researched and extremely informative survey of the life and work of one of the great figures of world cinema, Richard Schickel's "Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin" is a must ...

Thanks to an award of $5,000, 2016 Chanhassen High School graduate Eric Pitz, a senior at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, will have ample resources to research and write about one of ...

A couple of years ago, I decided to take the plunge and watch as many Charlie Chaplin films as I could get my hands on, checking out all the available DVDs from my county's library system and watching ...

Still beloved by children the world over, Chaplin, despite his humble origins, was a renaissance man – accomplished comedian, actor, composer, writer – and business executive. He was unquestionably ...

Chaplin goes one-on-one with his most sinister impersonator in this only intermittently effective political burlesque. Intentions count for something however—released after the Hitler-Stalin Pact, ...

A thoroughly researched and extremely informative survey of the life and work of one of the great figures of world cinema, Richard Schickel's "Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin" is a must ...